Quotes About Challenge

I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded!

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.

I learned how to cross-country ski.

It takes a lot of guts to jump. If people criticise, I would give them a set of skis and say, 'Do it yourself then.'

I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.

My wife Santa is a fanatical skier, going to Klosters many times a year. To please her, I have for 12 years tried to ski, abseil, mountain-climb, para-scend, heli-ski, land-lauf, ice-skate, toboggan, luge, bobsleigh, yodel, gulp gluhwein, dunk bread in cheese fondue, or even walk in the mountains. I have failed at every one of these pursuits.

I've always been the, 'Sure, I'll try that' guy. I'm very adventurous and don't have fears. I think I got that from my mother's side because she was an Olympic skier. Jump off a mountain with a parachute? Sure. What could possibly go wrong?

As pro snowboarders, skiers, etc., we all know that what we do is risky.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Who actually enjoys skiing? Come on, even Olympic ski masters, even James Bond, think that dressing up in all that fluorescent, insulated kit and having to manoeuvre down a mountain in the freezing cold is no way to spend leisure time.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

At the age of 61, my hip went. I was skiing in Chile with my son, and there was a turn, and I kept falling. I thought, 'What an idiot; what's going on here?'

I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

Skiing is ridiculous.

I want to learn skiing and parallel bar gymnastics.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.